From owner-cvs-all Thu Mar 21 4:17:31 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (esplanaden.cybercity.dk [212.242.40.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2594F37B417; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 04:17:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2LCHCn1003445; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:17:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mike Barcroft Cc: Bruce Evans , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/mdconfig mdconfig.c In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Mar 2002 07:05:19 EST." <20020321070519.A80338@espresso.q9media.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:17:12 +0100 Message-ID: <3444.1016713032@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20020321070519.A80338@espresso.q9media.com>, Mike Barcroft writes: >Bruce Evans writes: >> Yes; mdconfig cannot know what its disks are used for; they may be subdivided >> into slices and partitions of any size, and newfs is not the only filesystem. > >I guess there's no correct way to report this type of error early in >the memory disk creation process. No, but the newfs message can be improved a lot. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message